Heather Holbach discusses flights into Hurricane Ian at the National Tropical Weather Conference – Hurricane Research Division

The National Tropical Weather Conference is a professional conference for broadcast meteorologists and broadcast meteorology students focusing on tropical system forecasting, disaster preparedness, safety, research, impacts and social media communications. It was held last week at South Padre Island, TX. Heather Holbach presented a summary of NOAA Hurricane Hunter flights into Hurricane Ian last year. She gave an overview of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters and the NOAA’s annual Hurricane Field Program the discussed our series of missions into Hurricane Ian. She showed the different types of data that were collected, largely focused on the different Doppler Radar products, and some videos and pictures from the flights.

The slides, including videos from the flights, can be found here. For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.gov.